Sublime Text vs. TextEdit

Sublime Text

Sublime Text

217 Reviews and Ratings

TextEdit

TextEdit

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Sublime Text	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.	$80
TextEdit	Score 2.0 out of 10	N/A	TextEdit is a free and open source distributed with MacOS since Apple acquired NeXT.	N/A

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Sublime Text

TextEdit

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Business: $80.00

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Pricing Offerings
Sublime Text	TextEdit
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Sublime Text	TextEdit
Considered Both Products	Sublime Text Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text I used to code on Adobe Dreamweaver before. Dreamweaver software was very heavy for my code, but Sublime Text is a much lighter software compared to Dreamweaver, and I can easily use Sublime Text anywhere because its software takes up very little space. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Easier to use, runs very solid (especially on Mac OS). Syntax coloring is the best. Possibilities to add plugins and custom things is huge. Connection with Github works great (never tested this with the other tools though). Also, our company has chosen this tool so at my current … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text is free and offers a cleaner coding interface. Even if I forgot to save updates to a file, the next time I open it, it's still present. Sublime Text boots faster than the other text editors and is also easy to deploy. Memory consumption of Sublime Text is lesser … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text These are all great but are either too expensive (versus free) or too complicated to hit the ground running. Incentivized Helpful? Rajat Khatri Associate Software Engineering Chose Sublime Text Notepad++ Incentivized Helpful? ankit patel Data Specialist Chose Sublime Text Sublime is more customizable and one can easily modify a lot of its features. On the contrary Visual Studio only has limited customizability features. Sublime text is also very light and not bloated as opposed to visual studio ide. We also chose sublime because it has much … Incentivized Helpful? Al Mubassir Muin Software Engineer Chose Sublime Text Compared to any other text editor I've used, Sublime Text has the best user interface. On Macs, Windows, and Linux, Sublime Text makes editing easier. When I couldn't use Notepad++ on a Windows machine, I used Sublime Text instead. My colleagues started using Sublime Text, so I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Even if VIM is a must use for every programmer, [especially] if you work with server files via ssh or similar, for daily use its learning curve is big and difficult. Instead, sublime requires almost no knowledge to start using it and, in a local instance, their performance is … Incentivized Helpful? Tigran Petrosyan Risk Management Specialist Chose Sublime Text Other than Sublime Text, I have not used any other code editors, so it would be hard for me to compare Sublime Text with its competitors. Incentivized Helpful? SA Samer Araabi Research Director Chose Sublime Text We've used both Notepad++ and Atom; both are great but nothing really beats the Sublime Text UI; super intuitive and friendly and does everything you need without overwhelming you with stuff you don't. Other options are free, but for our organization, it was well worth the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text has a bit more flexibility and doesn't take up as much space or memory as some of the larger IDEs. Notepad++ is customizable too, but Sublime Text is better suited for code editing in my experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Visual Studio Code was honestly a tough competitor to Sublime for multi-language projects, and ultimately edged it out for some of the teams I worked with. It's library functionality was far superior, it is 100% open source vs ads, and it has a similar speed. Pycharm and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Before using Visual Studio Code, we were using Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver worked well back then, but we were amazed at how much faster and more intuitive Sublime Text was. That's the time that we got into SASS, which made things go so much faster and more efficiently. Also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text While Microsoft Visual Studio Code has a lot more to offer, it can sometimes be a little too much and get too complicated. I like to keep things simple in text editors which makes Sublime Text my preferred editor. There are a lot of packages that can be installed for Sublime … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text I think Sublime is the most efficient text editor in terms of memory usage, especially compared to VSC. However, VSC is feature-rich and has almost all the features of IDE such as debugging tools and IntelliSense. These features are missing in sublime. There are plugins to … Incentivized Helpful? Bryan McAnulty Owner / Founder Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text beat out everything else we tried. Visual Studio Code which recently became more popular is not as fast and serves a different market than Sublime's general text editing. Incentivized Helpful? Yaniv Vararu Director, Quality & Processes Chose Sublime Text The main reason I moved from using Notepad++ to use Sublime Text was that I moved from Windows OS to Mac OS.... Notepad++ is not supported on Windows based systems, so I had no choice. But my guess is that over the years, I would have probably moved to Sublime Text anyway, since … Incentivized Helpful? Sudha Govindaraju C# Programmer Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text has a better UI compared to any other text editors I have used. Easier to edit text on Sublime Text, even on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems. Incentivized Helpful? KV Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern Chose Sublime Text Sublimes text is comparable with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code and NotePad++. However, VS code is far better than [Sublime Text] in terms of the plugins and extensions available in the market. [...] Sublime consumes [...] less memory, compared to the VS code, [which … Incentivized Helpful? Mostafa Dakam IT Administrator Chose Sublime Text I use google keep for taking notes on the go and sharing with my colleagues, sharing tasks for example but for my professional coding I use sublime text, because it has all the features I need to do my work, I use google note on mobile devices but I use sublime on my desktop or … Incentivized Helpful? Divyang Sabhadiya Developer Chose Sublime Text On certain levels all have certain pros and cons but Sublime has community support and a huge future ahead due to its features, making it lead all the others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text More reliable and intuitive than TextMate or Atom and more feature-filled than an Emacs. The colors/syntax highlighting is superior. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text For users who care a lot about performance (and also battery usage), ST3 is going to win almost every time because its natively built on whatever OS you are running on whereas VSCode is built on top of Electron, which is widely known to have poor performance. As an anecdote, on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text is powerful, stable, versatile, and lightweight. It's also very affordable, with straightforward licensing terms. Many of the other options that we explored met some of these qualifications, but only Sublime Text checks all of those boxes. For example, NetBeans and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sublime Text I think Sublime Text is more elegant and simple to use. Incentivized Helpful?	TextEdit No answer on this topic

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User Ratings
	Sublime Text	TextEdit
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Sublime Text	TextEdit
Likelihood to Recommend	My CMS has a small window in which I can edit custom HTML/CSS. It can be expanded some, but not as much as I would like. It also displays all code as dark text on a white background. On a page where I am doing extensive custom coding, it is helpful to see it in a larger window and in a color-coded display so that I don't have to strain my eyes as hard. Especially when I'm trying to scan for specific elements and target issues and so that I don't have to scroll endlessly in a tiny window. Incentivized Elizabeth McDaniel Digital Marketing Coordinator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Sublime Text does an incredible job with appropriate color coding and syntax definitions; makes code extremely readable Tab selection is very well done; easy to see which files have been changed and to compare across multiple files Auto-complete is surprisingly effective and accurate Support for Apple M1 processors already Incentivized SA Samer Araabi Research Director Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	In a world of free and open text editors, Sublime Text does ask for donations. You can use the product freely with only a very infrequent popup asking for donations. You can use it however long you like without paying, but it is well worth it to donate to. People not used to the functionality may need a bit of time to get up to speed using the documentation. An integrated terminal would be nice, but that is just a quibble. It's hard to find many cons with Sublime Text. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	I love this application. It has helped to improve my work. Also, I became so used to the shortcuts that It's hard for me to change to another editor. Incentivized Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	This is a programmers tool. As such a lot of the features and benefits are lost on a non-technical user. To get the most out of the tool you need to have a basic crash course in how it works and what it can do. The documentation and community are good, but it takes a bit of time to get up to speed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	It has many handy hacks and shortcuts which enhances its performace. Incentivized Divyang Sabhadiya Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Never had to use their customer support before. There is ample documentation online so it's straightforward to find a solution to any problem you might encounter. For example, I needed to convert a string of HTML code to a properly formatted HTML file to "modify." Easy to do when there are so many users of the product who have needed to do that same thing before. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Sublime is more customizable and one can easily modify a lot of its features. On the contrary Visual Studio only has limited customizability features. Sublime text is also very light and not bloated as opposed to Visual Studio IDE. We also chose sublime because it has much better support for the majority of languages(especially Python) and I primarily work with python. Incentivized ankit patel Data Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Sublime is a cost-effective option for the company, as it isn't prohibitively expensive, and our team prefers it to other options. Speed, customization, and scalability are just some of the advantages of using Sublime Text in our IT department. Our work has been slowed down by faster coding and more accessible debugging apps, both good and bad. Al Mubassir Muin Software Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
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